Actionable Insight Job Trends in England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 209 153
Rank change year-on-year +29 -56 +79
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 983 692 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.12% 1.60% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.78% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 559 380 457
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,948 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Actionable Insight falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,072 38,960 70,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 90.13% 82.28%
Number of salaries quoted 46,074 22,313 49,745
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,760 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in England

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -13 298 £66,041 +1.60% 182
North of England +40 214 £50,000 - 51
South East -12 160 £55,000 +10.00% 86
Midlands +34 156 £51,300 +5.77% 30
North West +54 122 £47,500 - 25
East Midlands +51 84 £60,000 +50.30% 13
South West -14 77 £68,750 +37.50% 19
West Midlands -10 72 £50,000 -3.38% 17
Yorkshire +4 66 £60,000 +20.00% 18
East of England -1 59 £62,300 +46.59% 14
North East -34 26 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (0.71%) CMS
3 7 (0.71%) SAS
4 5 (0.51%) Confluence
5 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.31%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.20%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Qpid
8 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 102 (10.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.51%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.51%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.41%) Magento
6 3 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.31%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.31%) Shopify
7 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.10%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 228 (23.19%) Power Platform
2 73 (7.43%) Azure
3 56 (5.70%) SaaS
4 51 (5.19%) Google Analytics
5 39 (3.97%) AWS
6 33 (3.36%) GCP
7 26 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 18 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 15 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.02%) Figma
11 10 (1.02%) Google Tag Manager
11 10 (1.02%) iPaaS
11 10 (1.02%) OneDrive
11 10 (1.02%) Snowflake
12 9 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.92%) Google Sheets
13 6 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.87%) Broadband
2 13 (1.32%) Network Security
3 12 (1.22%) Firewall
4 6 (0.61%) 5G
5 4 (0.41%) SMS
6 2 (0.20%) DNS
6 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.20%) Wireless
6 2 (0.20%) WPA
7 1 (0.10%) BGP
7 1 (0.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.10%) Multicast
7 1 (0.10%) OSPF
7 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.10%) SNMP
7 1 (0.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.10%) WinSCP
7 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (23.19%) Power BI
2 69 (7.02%) Tableau
3 36 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (3.46%) Looker
5 32 (3.26%) Power Query
6 27 (2.75%) Data Lake
7 21 (2.14%) Metadata
8 16 (1.63%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.53%) SQL Server
10 14 (1.42%) SAP BW
11 10 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.71%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.61%) Big Data
13 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.61%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.51%) QlikView
15 4 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
16 3 (0.31%) Data Mart
16 3 (0.31%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 18 (1.83%) JIRA
2 6 (0.61%) Git
3 5 (0.51%) Axure RP
3 5 (0.51%) Balsamiq
3 5 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.51%) JMeter
3 5 (0.51%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.20%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.20%) GitLab
4 2 (0.20%) Postman
4 2 (0.20%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.20%) Selenium
5 1 (0.10%) Gatling
5 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.10%) SoapUI
General
1 441 (44.86%) Analytical Skills
2 369 (37.54%) Finance
3 364 (37.03%) Social Skills
4 141 (14.34%) Marketing
5 90 (9.16%) Retail
6 77 (7.83%) Public Sector
7 67 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (4.27%) Manufacturing
10 41 (4.17%) Banking
11 38 (3.87%) Law
12 36 (3.66%) Legal
13 30 (3.05%) Advertising
14 26 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.93%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.02%) Publishing
18 8 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
19 6 (0.61%) Financial Institution
20 5 (0.51%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 270 (27.47%) Analyst
2 115 (11.70%) Senior
3 114 (11.60%) Lead
4 112 (11.39%) Data Analyst
5 73 (7.43%) Data Scientist
6 54 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
7 50 (5.09%) Developer
8 48 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
9 44 (4.48%) Consultant
10 42 (4.27%) Head of QA
11 40 (4.07%) Report Analyst
12 36 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 34 (3.46%) Senior Data Analyst
14 33 (3.36%) Financial Analyst
15 32 (3.26%) Architect
16 26 (2.64%) Senior Data Scientist
17 23 (2.34%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.34%) Lead Data Scientist
18 22 (2.24%) Performance Analyst
19 21 (2.14%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.27%) PyTorch
2 41 (4.17%) TensorFlow
3 23 (2.34%) Hugging Face
4 15 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (0.92%) HTML
6 7 (0.71%) CSS
7 6 (0.61%) REST
7 6 (0.61%) Streamlit
8 4 (0.41%) .NET
8 4 (0.41%) Middleware
8 4 (0.41%) Pandas
8 4 (0.41%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.31%) Kafka
9 3 (0.31%) LangChain
9 3 (0.31%) Playwright
10 2 (0.20%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.20%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.20%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.20%) LangGraph
10 2 (0.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 48 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
3 45 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 31 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.03%) Social Media
7 19 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
9 15 (1.53%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.22%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (0.81%) FMCG
14 8 (0.81%) Robotics
14 8 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.71%) Clustering
16 5 (0.51%) Blog
16 5 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.93%) Windows
2 18 (1.83%) Linux
3 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.10%) Android
4 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (40.69%) Analytics
2 305 (31.03%) Decision-Making
3 260 (26.45%) Business Intelligence
4 251 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 198 (20.14%) AI
6 181 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (16.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 154 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 150 (15.26%) CRM
10 131 (13.33%) Agile
11 130 (13.22%) Mentoring
12 125 (12.72%) Data Science
13 123 (12.51%) Roadmaps
14 119 (12.11%) Data Analysis
14 119 (12.11%) Data Modelling
15 113 (11.50%) Machine Learning
16 97 (9.87%) Project Management
16 97 (9.87%) Visualisation
17 90 (9.16%) Customer Experience
18 80 (8.14%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 251 (25.53%) SQL
2 204 (20.75%) Python
3 39 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.53%) Java
6 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.42%) R
7 13 (1.32%) C
8 12 (1.22%) C++
8 12 (1.22%) Rust
9 8 (0.81%) C#
9 8 (0.81%) Scala
9 8 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.71%) Clojure
10 7 (0.71%) Erlang
11 5 (0.51%) Bash
11 5 (0.51%) VBA
12 4 (0.41%) Go
12 4 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 113 (11.50%) Degree
2 66 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 50 (5.09%) ACCA
5 49 (4.98%) CIMA
6 48 (4.88%) NVQ Level 3
7 42 (4.27%) IRCA
8 26 (2.64%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.54%) PMP
10 17 (1.73%) CISSP
10 17 (1.73%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (0.92%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.81%) CISM
14 8 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.71%) CISA
16 6 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 107 (10.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 83 (8.44%) GDPR
4 67 (6.82%) QA
5 50 (5.09%) Accessibility
6 47 (4.78%) ISO 9001
7 46 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (2.54%) NIST
8 25 (2.54%) PMO
9 11 (1.12%) NCSC
10 9 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.81%) GRC
11 8 (0.81%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.71%) WCAG
13 6 (0.61%) SLA
14 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.41%) Automotive SPICE
15 4 (0.41%) ISO 26262
15 4 (0.41%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (0.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.31%) Terraform
3 2 (0.20%) Ansible
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.10%) Grafana
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.10%) SCCM
4 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 112 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.83%) Google
3 45 (4.58%) SAP
4 42 (4.27%) Oracle
5 41 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.34%) HubSpot
7 20 (2.03%) Databricks
8 14 (1.42%) Adobe
9 11 (1.12%) Foundry
10 9 (0.92%) Palantir
11 8 (0.81%) Workday
12 7 (0.71%) SYSPRO
13 6 (0.61%) Splunk
14 5 (0.51%) Hotjar
15 4 (0.41%) Epicor
15 4 (0.41%) IFS
15 4 (0.41%) Infor
15 4 (0.41%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.41%) Screaming Frog
15 4 (0.41%) Xero